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[EmperorJon]

Well, in all my DF time I don't think I've ever seem a dorf actually do cleaning. In my current fort a slight plumbing accident led to a waterfall running down the central stairs. Now, nothing bad about that, nobody got hurt and plenty of people were happy for the mist. The problem stems from the fact the the dorf who caused said accident was coated in grime and rhesus macaque blood. So I now have blood streaked all the way down the stairs. Do they ever actually clean?

[zooeyglass]

They do clean - I have a team doing quite a bit of cleaning at the moment. You need to let them idle with only cleaning enabled as a job, and then they'll do it.

The alternative where applicable is to construct a floor over the dirty tile - it'll erase whatever dirt is on the tile. Useful for clearing away dangerous FB extract smears instead of having to wait for cleaners...

[obeliab]

I find that my broker likes to clean whenever I set Trader Needed at Depot.

But seriously, I've had some marginal success with the wiki's suggestion, which is to assign a dwarf to a small burrow around where you want them to clean, and disable all their duties except for Cleaning.  Sometimes they just don't seem to want to do it, though.

[Jorshamo]

I seem to recall that dwarves prefer to clean buildings and constructions. I had an old .18 fort that world regularly get kobold thieves. My quick response military would often slaughter them on a bridge (I had in inside moat and 4 10-tile long bridges), and then a group of dwarves would clean the blood off the bridge fairly quickly. I'm not sure how smoothed and engraved stone wall do, though.

[Lord Darkstar]

WALLS never get cleaned on purpose. In fact, they can only be cleaned by being adjacent to a floor tile that gets cleaned. If you have blood stained walls but clean floors? No hope of the dwarven janitors ever cleaning the walls. I suppose they like the coloring on the wall.

If it bothers you having bloody walls and clean floors, use DFHack to remove all the blood.

[Bouchart]

Instead of building a floor you might try building a dirt road.  It's faster but it can only be done on soil/sand/clay/loam.